JERSEY CITY, NJ

Jersey City is not New York on the FEC city key

The headline pair is $24,839,922 and 68,120 lines. The implied average is about $365. Cite both numbers. Quoting only the dollars drops the line-count shape of the Jersey City book.

Hudson County’s Jersey City string is separate from Hoboken, Newark, and New York on the FEC city key. Filers typed JERSEY CITY in the city field. LobbyVault summed rows with that string and state NJ. The city total can include a PAC or joint-fundraising committee address when that is the city filers typed. LobbyVault does not recode those rows out of the city string.

If a newsroom map paints Jersey City together with Hoboken and Manhattan, the FEC file still splits them. This extract’s only city total is $24,839,922 on 68,120 JERSEY CITY, NJ rows, mean near $365. Do not fold Jersey City into New York because the skyline looks contiguous.

Why JERSEY CITY on the receipt is not a census of Jersey City

Searchers often want “how much did people in Jersey City give.” The honest citation is narrower: itemized federal receipts with contributor city JERSEY CITY, NJ total $24,839,922 across 68,120 contributions. Dropping “itemized” and “contributor city” inflates the claim.

Party is not in this packet. Do not attach a partisan reading to $24,839,922. Occupation and employer may appear on named receipts on the city hub; they are not rolled up here.

Questions

How much is itemized from contributor city Jersey City, NJ?

FEC.gov itemized receipts listing contributor city JERSEY CITY, NJ total $24,839,922 across 68,120 contributions in the LobbyVault aggregate. That figure is a city-string roll-up of federal Schedule A rows, not a unique-donor count and not a census of people who live in Jersey City. Unitemized gifts sit outside it.

Is Jersey City folded into New York’s FEC city total?

No. LobbyVault counts 68,120 itemized contributions for JERSEY CITY, NJ against $24,839,922. New York is a different city string. Repeat gifts, redesignations, and memo entries can add rows without adding new donors. This packet does not publish a unique-donor figure, so 68,120 should not be quoted as a population.

Does the Jersey City total include only residents?

No. The city is the contributor-city value on the FEC itemization. Filers typed JERSEY CITY with state NJ. Office addresses and mail that list Jersey City can be part of $24,839,922 when that is the city string on the receipt. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a residential-only book. The 68,120-line count follows the same rule.

Are Jersey City numbers from FEC.gov?

The numbers come from FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $24,839,922 and 68,120 lines for JERSEY CITY, NJ. Original reports remain on FEC.gov. Unitemized federal gifts and non-federal filings from NJ are outside both figures. If a later extract disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls. The mean of about $365 is arithmetic from those two packet facts.